Noam Chomsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 99065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noam Chomsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noam |
| FAMILY NAME | Chomsky |
| SIGNATURE | CHOMSKY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3632-2461 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 256 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2266 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 256 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Tributes to Robert W. McChesney
To conclude our special issue on Robert W. McChesney's legacy, MR presents a series of tributes capturing his impact on the world around him. The diversity represented by these illustrious contributors, from his colleagues at the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) to Senator Bernie Sanders, is a testament to McChesney's enduring influence
Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda
Upon its original publication in 1993, Letters from Lexington reaffirmed Noam Chomsky's status as one of the most incisive critics of the American media. Reissued with a new foreword by Chomsky’s long-term collaborator, radio broadcaster David Barsamian, this prescient book remains startlingly relevant in our current age of disinformation and “fake news.” Throughout the book, Chomsky critiques the media’s complicity in US domestic and foreign pol…
What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Psychology and ideology
The consideration of ‘inner processors’ in the mathematical theory of communication or its applications to psychology followed normal scientific and engineering practice. The crucial step in Richard Herrnstein’s ‘syllogism’ in effect amounts to the claim that the ideology of capitalist society expresses universal traits of human nature, and that certain related implicit assumptions of behaviourist psychology are correct. He argues that ‘success’ …
Robert Barsky and Noam Chomsky discuss Bernie Sanders
Robert Barsky in conversation with Noam Chomsky regarding Bernie Sanders
Full Journal
The theme of Issue 34 of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations is Social Justice Action, Teaching, and Research. The first article of this issue, "The Art of Social Justice," features the works of a slam poet, Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, an activist artist, Eduardo Valadez, and an overview of the social science literature capturing the role of art in social justice movements. The two artists featured are both active in their communities and worldwide…
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
El aislamiento de Estados Unidos
El Centro de Investigaciones y Proyectos Especiales (CIPE), invita a los académicos, investigadores y especialistas en temas de asuntos internacionales contemporáneos a publicar sus avances de investigación en la revista OASIS (ISSN impreso: 1657-7558; ISSN digital: 2346-2132), adscrita al Observatorio de Análisis de los Sistemas Internacionales. La revista OASIS es de circulación nacional e internacional. Esta publicación inició con periodicidad…
A Faculdade da Linguagem: Um objeto biológico, uma janela para a mente e uma ponte entre disciplinas
Este trabalho fornece um resumo geral de algumas das questões atuais no campo da Gramática Gerativa, o estudo da Faculdade da Linguagem humana. Revisamos algumas das ideias-chave que essa abordagem da linguagem propõe e desenvolve, concentrando-se nas propriedades básicas da linguagem e suas interações com outros sistemas. Também apontamos algumas das possibilidades que uma abordagem biológica da linguagem oferece para construir pontes entre a Li…
Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality
Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequalityexplores and critiques the widespread perception in the United States that one’s success or failure in life is largely the result of personal choices and individual characteristics. As the authors show, the distinctively individualist ideology of American politics and culture shapes attitudes toward poverty and economic inequality in profound ways, fostering social policies that …
Linguistics Then and Now: Some Personal Reflections
By mid-twentieth century, a working consensus had been reached in the linguistics community, based on the great achievements of preceding years. Synchronic linguistics had been established as a science, a “taxonomic” science, with sophisticated procedures of analysis of data. Taxonomic science has limits. It does not ask “why?” The time was ripe to seek explanatory theories, using insights provided by the theory of computation and studies of expl…
Fundamental Operations of Language: Reflections on Optimal Design
20 years ago, in lectures in Brasilia, I suggested that we might someday discover that the Faculty of Language (FL) is "beautifully designed, a near-perfect solution to the conditions imposed by the general architecture of the mind-brain in which it is inserted, another illustration of how natural laws work out in wondrous ways," so that language is rather like a snowflake, and the near-perfect design can be expected to impose inefficiency of use…
Dissident” is a term to be used universally or not at all: Interview with Noam Chomsky, by Greg Evans
Th is text looks at the early Communist intellectual movement in Slovakia (in an area that, for part of the time under discussion, was affi liated with the the Hungarian Soviet Republic) organized around the journal Kassai Munkás (Th e Košice Worker).By placing this movement in the context of the development of Western Marxism and the incipient Marxist aesthetics of György Lukács, who was among those who published in the journal, the paper charac…
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
With the publication of ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’ half a century ago, Noam Chomsky burst onto the US political scene as a leading critic of the war in Vietnam. Privilege, he argues, brings with it the responsibility to tell the truth and expose lies, but our intellectual culture only pays lip-service to this ideal. The essay has been described as ‘the single most influential piece of anti-war literature’ of the Vietnam War period. Sin…
Towards eliminating arbitrary stipulations related to parameters: Linguistic innateness and the variational model
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Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
There Are Always Grounds for Seeking a World That Is More Free and More Just”: An Interview with Noam Chomsky on Israel, Palestine, and Zionism
In this dialogue, Joel Wainwright and Oded Nir interview one of the most influential commentators on Israel and Palestine, Noam Chomsky. Their wide-ranging discussion examines key controversies surrounding the issue: Israeli aggression, the paradigms for potential solutions to the conflict, early Zionism, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign, and the analogy between Israel/Palestine to apartheid South Africa
Media Theory, Public Relevance and the Propaganda Model Today
Since its initial formulation in 1988, the Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model (PM) has become one of the most widely tested models of media performance in the social sciences. This is largely due to the combined efforts of a loose group of international scholars as well as an increasing number of students who have produced studies in the US, UK, Canadian, Australian, Japanese, Chinese, German, and Dutch contexts, amongst others. Yet, the PM has also…
On Western Terrorism - New Edition: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare
Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change
Language, mind and brain
Why Only Us: Language and Evolution
We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language—“the language faculty”—raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars—a computer scientist and…
"Prefácio do livro "East Timor: "Bitter Paradise", de Elaine Briere
Noam Chomsky's preface to Elaine Briere's "East Timor: Bitter Paradise" condemns the complicity of Western powers, particularly the United States, in the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. He highlights the hypocrisy of their delayed intervention, driven by self-interest rather than genuine concern for human rights. Chomsky criticizes the media's silence and distortion of the situation, emphasizing the brutality of the occupation and the resili…
What Kind of Creatures Are We?: Columbia University Press
Problems of projection: Extensions
I presuppose here Chomsky (2013), including separation of projection (labeling) from the principles of construction of expressions. Assume further that for interpretation, syntactic objects must be labeled. It follows that Internal Merge is successive-cyclic leading to a criterial position, and is forced to ensure labeling. A further question is what Rizzi calls “the halting problem.” A simple solution is outlined. Special properties of subjects …
Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures
Knowledge of language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use
"Attempts to indentify the fundamental concepts of language, argues that the study of language reveals hidden facts about the mind, and looks at the impact of propaganda".
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Three Factors in Language Design
The biolinguistic perspective regards the language faculty as an "organ of the body," along with other cognitive systems. Adopting it, we expect to find three factors that interact to determine (I-) languages attained: genetic endowment (the topic of Universal Grammar), experience, and principles that are language- or even organism-independent. Research has naturally focused on I-languages and UG, the problems of descriptive and explanatory adequ…
Verbal behavior
I had intended this review not specifically as a criticism of Skinner's speculations regarding language, but rather as a more general critique of behaviorist (I would now prefer to say empiricist) speculation as to the nature of higher mental processes. My reason for discussing Skinner's book in such detail was that it was the most careful and thoroughgoing presentation of such speculations, an evaluation that I feel is still accurate. Therefore,…
Problems of projection
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
This book is an outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by one of the most influential thinkers of our time. In a series of penetrating essays, Chomsky cuts through the confusion and prejudice which has infected the study of language and mind, bringing new solutions to traditional philosophical puzzles and fresh perspectives on issues of general interest, ranging from the mind-body problem to the unification of s…
The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years
The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The effort to mobilize intellectual talent during the war established new links between the government and the academy. After the war, many of those who had worked with the military or the Office of Strategic Studies took jobs in the burgeoning post-war structure of university-based military research and intelligence agen…
Essays on form and interpretation
Some Methodological Remarks on Generative Grammar
1961). Some Methodological Remarks on Generative Grammar. WORD: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 219-239
Some controversial questions in phonological theory
In the first issue of this journal, Fred W. Householder discussed two papers of ours which he found defective in various respects. We feel that the issues involved are important and deserve the fullest clarification. We will therefore discuss Householder's objections and the underlying issues in some detail, reiterating points that have been made in the aforementioned papers and elsewhere and making no attempt to avoid redundancy if this can cont…
The mystery of language evolution
Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research on this problem as well as a sense that considerable progress has been made. We argue instead that the richness of ideas is accompanied by a poverty of evidence, with essentially no explanation of how and why our linguistic computations and representations evolved. We show that…
Problems of knowledge and freedom
Syntactic Structures
Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar
Language, mind and brain
World Orders Old and New
On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
Recent contributions to the theory of innate ideas: Summary of oral presentation
Logical Syntax and Semantics: Their Linguistic Relevance
The relation between linguistics and logic has been discussed in a recent paper by Bar-Hillel, where it is argued that a disregard for work in logical syntax and semantics has caused linguists to limit themselves too narrowly in their inquiries, and to fall into several errors. In particular, Bar-Hillel asserts, they have attempted to derive relations of synonymy and so-called ‘rules of transformation’, such as the active-passive relation, from d…
The Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden?
The Crimes of 'Intcom
Some General Properties of Phonological Rules
As the study of phonology has progressed, within the framework of generative grammar, certain principles have emerged governing the form and organization of phonological rules, and the manner in which these rules are to be interpreted. Several such principles are presented, with illustrative examples, from English, indicating the kind of evidence that supports them. Some possible alternatives are also discussed. Certain of these principles are qu…
Persistent Topics in Linguistic Theory
Contemporary study of language has turned to questions of linguistic structure and cognitive psychology of a sort that aroused little interest in the immediately preceding period. The extent to which this is a return to long neglected topics rather than an innovation is not widely appreciated, however, and I would like to comment briefly on this matter here.A central topic of much current research is what we may call the "creative" aspect of lang…
Human Language and Other Semiotic Systems
Modern Hebrew
Logical Syntax and Semantics: Their Linguistic Relevance
The relation between linguistics and logic has been discussed in a recent paper by Bar-Hillel, where it is argued that a disregard for work in logical syntax and semantics has caused linguists to limit themselves too narrowly in their inquiries, and to fall into several errors. In particular, Bar-Hillel asserts, they have attempted to derive relations of synonymy and so-called ‘rules of transformation’, such as the active-passive relation, from d…
Three models for the description of language
We investigate several conceptions of linguistic structure to determine whether or not they can provide simple and "revealing" grammars that generate all of the sentences of English and only these. We find that no finite-state Markov process that produces symbols with transition from state to state can serve as an English grammar. Furthermore, the particular subclass of such processes that producen-order statistical approximations to English do n…
Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is understood by experts in those fields. It is not a mere reorganization of the data into a new kind of library catalogue, nor another specualtive philosoph…
On the Goals of Linguistic Theory
A Manual of Phonology . Charles F. Hockett
Syntactic Structures
Fundamentals Of Language. Roman Jakobson , Morris Halle
Langage des machines et langage humain
On certain formal properties of grammars
Verbal behavior
I had intended this review not specifically as a criticism of Skinner's speculations regarding language, but rather as a more general critique of behaviorist (I would now prefer to say empiricist) speculation as to the nature of higher mental processes. My reason for discussing Skinner's book in such detail was that it was the most careful and thoroughgoing presentation of such speculations, an evaluation that I feel is still accurate. Therefore,…
On the notion “Rule of Grammar”
Some Methodological Remarks on Generative Grammar
1961). Some Methodological Remarks on Generative Grammar. WORD: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 219-239
Some controversial questions in phonological theory
In the first issue of this journal, Fred W. Householder discussed two papers of ours which he found defective in various respects. We feel that the issues involved are important and deserve the fullest clarification. We will therefore discuss Householder's objections and the underlying issues in some detail, reiterating points that have been made in the aforementioned papers and elsewhere and making no attempt to avoid redundancy if this can cont…
Persistent Topics in Linguistic Theory
Contemporary study of language has turned to questions of linguistic structure and cognitive psychology of a sort that aroused little interest in the immediately preceding period. The extent to which this is a return to long neglected topics rather than an innovation is not widely appreciated, however, and I would like to comment briefly on this matter here.A central topic of much current research is what we may call the "creative" aspect of lang…
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. By Noam Chomsky Special Technical Report No. 11 of the Research Laboratory of Electronics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press. 1965. Pp. x + 251. Price 57s or $7.50). John Lyons John Lyons Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 65, October 1966, Pages 39…
Une conception transformationnelle de la syntaxe
Chomsky Noam. Une conception transformationnelle de la syntaxe. In: Langages, 1e année, n°4, 1966. La grammaire générative, sous la direction de Nicolas Ruwet. pp. 39-80
Syntaxe logique et sémantique: Leur Pertinence Linguistique
Chomsky Noam. Syntaxe logique et sémantique : leur pertinence linguistique. In: Langages, 1e année, n°2, 1966. Logique et linguistique, sous la direction de Ernest Coumet, Oswald Ducrot et Jean Gattégno. pp. 42-57
La notion de « règle de grammaire
Chomsky Noam. La notion de « règle de grammaire ». In: Langages, 1e année, n°4, 1966. La grammaire générative, sous la direction de Nicolas Ruwet. pp. 81-104
Recent contributions to the theory of innate ideas: Summary of oral presentation
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Some General Properties of Phonological Rules
As the study of phonology has progressed, within the framework of generative grammar, certain principles have emerged governing the form and organization of phonological rules, and the manner in which these rules are to be interpreted. Several such principles are presented, with illustrative examples, from English, indicating the kind of evidence that supports them. Some possible alternatives are also discussed. Certain of these principles are qu…
Language and the mind: (400082009-004)
Buku ini berisi tiga bab yang merupakan perluasan dari sari kuliah yang dipresentasikan pada Universitas California. Bab pertama adalah upaya dalam mengevaluasi kontribusi pada masa lalu terhadap kajian atas pikiran yang berdasarkan pada penelitian dan spekulasi berkenaan dengan sifat dasar bahasa. Kedua adalah difokuskan pada perkembangan linguistik kontemporer yang tetap berfokus pada kajian atas pikiran. Dan, ketiga adalah sebuah diskusi speku…
"Théorie algébrique des langages "context-free
Chomsky Noam, Schützenberger Marcel Paul. Théorie algébrique des langages "context-free". In: Langages, 3e année, n°9, 1968. Les modèles en linguistique, sous la direction de Maurice Gross. pp. 77-118
Quine's empirical assumptions
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